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2 Samuel 11-12 David and Bathsheba -- Joshua Generation
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David's Heroic Beginnings
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What was that, Anita? What was Second Samuel. Yep, chapter 11. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. All right, so thus far...
David's Downfall Begins
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ah okay thank you you're welcome
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ah so thus far David has been a model hero and the Bible. He has been brave, he has been courageous, he has been sacrificial, he has been patient, he has been transparent, raw, open, and honest with God about anything and everything.
00:00:43
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he has taken down giants, literally. and He has cast demons out of people. um He has fought against evil armies and won every time.
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He's been a superstar.
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Today, he makes a mistake.
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Accidentally. And then, that leads to deliberate sin. And that leads to a cover-up. And you're going to see how one wrong decision, even won the fact awesome i think was and even one that's accidental, you'll very fine can lead you down a downward spiral.
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And it's, it ends up in a really dark place. It does. But God is good. And he does work it out in the end.
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In the spring, At the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab, his commander, out to the king's men and the whole Israelites' army.
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So this is the time when kings go off to war. This is a time of battle. If it's a time of battle, your job is to battle.
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You're supposed to be in the fight. That might sound really, really obvious to us today, but it was not obvious to David on this moment. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
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This is a fight he is supposed to be part of. The king is supposed to be with his army. But instead, for whatever reason, and we don't know his reasons,
00:02:49
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He's feeling a little bit indifferent. Remember last week? A little bit of sleep. A little bit of slumber. little folding of the hands to rest. He just feels a bit indifferent.
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A bit apathetic. A little bit, don't care. a little bit, I deserve the spring holiday. a little bit, sure, somebody else can do it.
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A little bit, in Ireland we say, ah sure, be grand. One evening, so he's in Jerusalem,
The Bathsheba Incident
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he's at home, he's not where he should be.
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David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace.
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From the roof, he saw a woman bathing. Now, whatever we can say about Bathsheba's personality and culpability, what happens next?
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She's not a seductress, okay? She's not out bathing thinking, oh, I hope the king looks and sees me. This was normal, okay? If you were a woman in the Near East, in the ancient world, the evening was when the women would go out to bathe, okay? So she's not hoping to be seen. This is just her normal daily routine.
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sorry And she wasn't bathing, because I always heard that she bathing on the roof. No, no, no. It's that she was seen from the roof. oh Some people have this idea where she went out of her way to be detected.
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She went out of her way you know to get the king's favor. He's up on the roof and she's just down here bathing, which was normal for women at that time.
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Plus, he shouldn't have seen her because he should have been on battlefield. So he's in the wrong. So this is accidental exposure on his part. He's like, whoopsie!
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But he chose not to be in the battlefield. He chose to stay at home. So he's kind of responsible.
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From the roof, he saw a woman bathing. Now, it's possible that there were a lot of women bathing. We don't know if, you know, it was just the the one in a private pool. If it was like i a swimming pool for women. We don't know, but he saw her in particular.
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The woman was very beautiful. And David sent someone to find out about her. So he got a messenger, you know, oh, you know, tell me about this woman. know What's her name? Who is she?
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Give me the scoop, give me the details.
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The man said she is Bathsheba, which I think is hilarious. A woman named Bathsheba was seen having a bat, but, you know. The daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite, okay? She is a wife, she is a married woman.
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Now, Uriah knew David very well. David had a core team of 30 men that he trusted more than anyone else.
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They were called his mighty men. Uriah is one of David's mighty men. He's in the top 30. You can see that in 1 Chronicles 11.41. 1 Chronicles So David and Uriah are brothers in arms.
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They have fought many battles together. They've trained together. They are friends. Now look, you don't necessarily know all of your friends' spouses. That's fair enough. Or not in detail. That's okay.
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But at this point, David is told, oh yeah, this is your buddy's wife.
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Then David sends messengers to get her.
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Have you ever heard the expression, and Idle hands do the devil's work. So when you're lazy, you're actually assisting the dark one.
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This is David not being on the battlefield in a time of war. He chose to be lazy and stay at home. And the devil gave him something to do.
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His friend's wife. Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him and he slept with her. Now, she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.
00:07:18
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It doesn't mean having a period made you like a sinner. This is it ritually unclean. This is just in the Old Testament. If you had any blood flow or ejaculation or physical injury, you couldn't enter the tabernacle and a place of meeting. Okay, this is not spiritual uncleanness. It's ritual uncleanness.
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So he slept with her, then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David saying, like an episode of EastEnders, I'm going to do a carnage street, their city, I am pregnant.
00:08:01
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ten ten data it and So David sent this word to Joab. Remember, Joab is his commander who's on the battlefield. Send me Uriah the Hittite.
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Send me my adulterous lover's husband.
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And Joab sent him to David.
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When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were, had the war was going. Casual conversations.
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Then David said to Uriah, go down to your house and wash your feet. Relax, clean yourself up from the battlefield.
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And, you know, go to your house, you know, presumably sleep in bed with your wife.
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So Uriah left the palace and a gift from the king was sent after him. We don't know what the gift was, but today you know you might send like you know a box of chocolates and wine and just hope to create a romantic atmosphere.
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What David is hoping is Uriah will sleep with his wife. She'll be like, whoopsie, pregnant. And then he'll believe that the son is his own. That's the plan here.
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know, for someone desperate, it's it's a pretty good plan, actually. It is. So Uriah left the palace and a gift from the king was sent after him. but But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
00:09:53
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Uriah is an honorable man. Uriah is thinking the other 29 mighty men and the army and Job the commander are on the battlefield.
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They're not having sex with their wives. They're facing a massive wall and the Ammonite army risking their lives for the re protection of their nation.
00:10:19
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And he's like, and I'm supposed to be like, you know, doing the do and making honey with my wife? No. He said that would be such a dishonorable thing to do to his brothers in arms of the battlefield.
00:10:33
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So he said, if They have to abstain. going to abstain too. So he slept then among the servants. He didn't go home.
00:10:43
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David was told Uriah did not go home. Because obviously whoever was sending, you know, the basket of flowers, muffins, chocolates, wine, whatever the gift was, to his house was like, oh, well, mean, his wife is home, but Uriah wasn't there.
00:10:58
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So David was told Uriah did not go home. So the next day he asked Uriah, haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home? You know, why have you sleep with your wife? Isn't that what everybody does? Uriah said to David, the Ark of the Covenant, the golden chest with the cherubim statues that the presence of God dwelt in, and Israel and Judah are staying in tents.
00:11:30
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And my commander Joab and my Lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife?
00:11:43
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As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing. He's a man of honor. He's a man of principle. He's a man of sacrifice, willing to put aside, you know, your normal drives and urges and surges.
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for the plans of God and for honor to his men.
00:12:09
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David probably began sweating from the forehead very, very heavily and tugging at collar.
00:12:18
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Then David said to him, and the sad thing is, on any other occasion, David would probably have had the same idea. Well, actually, okay, eight wives, maybe we'll just marry a woman, but you know.
00:12:31
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Then David said to him, stay here one more day and tomorrow I'll send you back. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem and that day and the next.
00:12:44
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At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him. he wasn't going to eat and drink with his wife because we all know what that was going to lead to, but he ate and drank with the king. And David made him drunk.
00:12:57
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So now David is thinking, if I just fill this guy up with alcohol, Then he will go home, sleep with his wife. And, you know, whoopsie, got her pregnant.
00:13:07
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And then you'll she'll miraculously have the baby like you know one or two months early. That's what he's thinking. but Desperate times call for desperate measures. We should do one more like a a Bible at a real house. But in the evening...
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but in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master servants. He did not go home. Yes, he was plastered.
00:13:37
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Yes, he was moldy. Whatever word you want to use for drunk. But he was sober enough to know what I said is what I've said.
00:13:48
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And I'm going to here. I'm not going to go back home. I'm not going to sleep with my wife. Because... It would be dishonorable said my men. And
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at this point, David is obviously told again, you know, oh, Uriah stayed out in the match, he didn't go home. And he resorts to a drastic decision.
00:14:14
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But I'm sure stay with him the rest of his life. In the morning, David wrote letter to Joab, the army commander, and sent it with Uriah, which is just sick, twisted, and disgusting.
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He writes this letter. He seals it up with the king's emblem. You cannot open it. No one can see what's inside. He hands it to Uriah and says, give this to Joab.
00:14:45
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Give this to your commander. And Uriah does not know what it says. Look at this. In it he wrote, put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest.
00:15:01
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Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die. David is thinking, if I cannot get Uriah to sleep with his wife and trick him into thinking that baby is his own,
00:15:20
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I just need to remove Uriah from the situation entirely.
00:15:29
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This is an act of premeditated murder. And the sickest, most twisted thing about it is he tricks Uriah. He couldn't trick Uriah into getting his wife imaginarily pregnant, but he tricks Uriah into sending over his own death warrant.
00:15:56
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It is hard to believe after everything we've looked at since when was it June or July last year, that this is the same David that we followed thus far.
00:16:08
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So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. So Joab is a military tactician.
00:16:22
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He says, okay, easy, easy, easy, difficult, red alert. I'm going to put Uriah over side.
00:16:30
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When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell. Moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
00:16:43
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So between David and Joab, they manufacture a scenario in which Joab, sorry, in which Uriah gets killed. And not only Uriah, other nameless, faceless men also perish.
00:16:58
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Joab sent David a full account of the battle. He instructed the messenger. Now this is Joab talking to a messenger who's going to go to David. And the language is very specific. It's very coded.
00:17:13
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One of those that the messenger will say all this to the king and the king will will know what it means. When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle.
00:17:25
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The king's anger might flare up. He might be like, oh my goodness, Uriah died? Oh wow, what a surprise. And he may ask you, why did you get so close to the city to fight?
00:17:37
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Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? killed Abimelech, son of Jerobashat? Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone at him from the walls? We died in Devez. If you don't know what that means, that's okay. That's the book of Judges.
00:17:51
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It's a great story for another day. That's just their their history. Why did you get so close to the wall? So, Joab is telling the messenger, you know, this might be David's response. David might go ballistic, might go crazy.
00:18:08
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If he asks you this, then say to him, moreover, Your servant, Uriah the Hittite, is dead. And, you know, shed your crocodile tears, pretend you're really sad.
00:18:21
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The messenger, not knowing about the murder, not knowing about the plot, set out. And when he arrived, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
00:18:34
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The messenger said to David, the men overpowered us and came out against us in the open. But we drove them back to the entrance of the city gates.
00:18:47
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Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.
00:19:01
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And David told the messenger. And so now, Joab and David are speaking to each other in code. The messenger doesn't know the ends and it doesn't know just how dark and twisted this is.
00:19:16
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Say this to Joab. Don't let this upset you.
Divine Judgment and Consequences
00:19:20
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The sword devours one as well as another. It's a war. People just die. It's a casualty.
00:19:27
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You know, casualty, just casual death. It just happens. These things happen. It's no one's fault. Part the process. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.
00:19:40
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Say this to encourage Joab. It'll make him feel better. When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. Well, I hope she did.
00:19:53
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After the time of mourning was over, so all this story takes place over a number of months, okay? For her to conceive and know she's pregnant, you're looking at at least a month.
00:20:05
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messenger going back and forward. This takes place over two or three months in the After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
00:20:19
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The son she got pregnant with. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord. Displeased means it hurt the Lord.
00:20:32
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Did you know sin hurts God? watching the people he loves destroy their lives and the lives of others.
00:20:42
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It vexed the Lord. Yes, he absolutely loved David, but God hates, hates, hates no matter who commits it.
00:20:53
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And it also means that God saw it as evil and deserving of punishment. He saw the sin as evil and deserving of punishment.
00:21:07
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David's sin hurt God, vexed God, and he saw it as evil deserving punishment.
00:21:23
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All right. Any thoughts, comments or questions, observations before we get to chapter 12? Well, it just goes to show, regardless of their standing, everybody is on their ground.
00:21:36
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Everybody. Everybody. Yeah. And it's why I hate this so much. And to be honest, for a long time, David was my favorite person in the Bible. Because of this, he's my second favorite.
00:21:51
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He lost a place. He lost his standing. Because he takes down Goliath. I mean, he's got family issues. His... parents don't like him, his siblings don't like him, he still takes down the giant, he endures everything going on with Sol, has marital problems with Mikal, still leads the nation, fights this enemy, fights this enemy.
00:22:15
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It's phenomenal. But everyone is only ever one bad decision away from screwing everything up And the really sad thing here is it started off accidentally.
00:22:33
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He didn't go looking for an naked woman taking a bath. He just happened to be standing there one day and saw it. He is responsible for not being on the battlefield and he is responsible for what it next. Yeah, had he not, if he had he been where he was supposed to be. Exactly, exactly.
00:22:51
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This is when you say to yourself, I'll not bother. Precisely. This is the when you listen to the devil and you say it yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Exactly. We've all been there always. Of course we have. I don't know the mood today. I won't. And that's the day you should be doing it. 100%. Because to be honest with you, then this way this main story kid tends to focus on first the adultery.
00:23:13
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Then it focuses on pregnant. Then it focuses on his attempts to get Uriah to sleep with her. And then the murder everything else. To take the responsibility away from him. Exactly. But it all starts. It starts before this story begins.
00:23:29
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When this story begins, he's in Jerusalem in his palace. The downward spiral began the moment he decided not to be where he was supposed to be. that's right And I think it's very interesting that we're not given his reason. Probably passivity, boredom, I'm sure someone else can do it, I should be around, I'm sure we're going to win anyway.
00:23:53
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Whatever his reason was, that was when all of this began. That was what got the cogs turning. That's what began the spiral, what began the overall issue.
00:24:07
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But it's those small moments when we just let our guard down. Yeah, when you just lapse. You just lapse. You know, like, can I ask them, so when do you know that you should still be doing something and you're not doing it out laziness or when you've been been working and working and working and working and then you're burned out you're like okay I need to rest and then you end up resting longer than you thought you needed to which you actually needed the rest but you're supposed to do something by that time but you've burned yourself out and then when you it's too late like how do you discern the difference I know yeah it's a hard one yeah no it's a great question i would say every day you'll have an opportunity know to pick up your sword or your tools we write the path of business yeah but every day
00:24:53
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You have to carve out that time to come back to your peace. So let's say on Monday last week, ah I think the whole own your zone teaching was still very much on my mind.
00:25:08
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Before 10 a.m., m I had gotten up, gotten dressed, gone for a walk. I had put on two washing machine loads of clothes washing,
00:25:21
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I'd taken clothes in off the line. had ironed clothes. i had cooked dinner for myself. and I had gone for a walk around the River Dee, so, you know, some exercise. Maybe one two other things. I had done a little clean around the house all before 10 o'clock. And that's because I got up at 5.30.
00:25:44
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So when I got up at 5.30... But you got up with intention. Exactly. That's difference. Yeah. So when I got at 5.30... I'm like, okay, I'm going to have time to write down my dreams. I'm going to interpret them. I'm going to have time later to put my clothes on. going have time you to get ready to leave the house.
00:26:00
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And then I start praying at six o'clock. I even do worship even about ten to six. And then at six o'clock, that's when I begin praying. A.M. was it? A.M. Oh, sorry. A.M., yeah. Until somewhere between 7.10 and 7.45, depending morning the different needs of the and that if it needs the day So I start off that day with the Lord because I know that come 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock midday, going to start getting calls for counseling, for deliverances, for prayer, for during interpretations. I've got book editing to do. I've got job searches to be about. a The daily running of things and the thing that you don't expect to just crop up.
00:26:50
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I know that come 10 a.m. or so, when the whole country is awake, my life's gonna get very, very busy. So I have to carve out that space starting at 6 a.m.
00:27:02
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to 7, 10, 7, 45 for time with Jesus. a So before I have to pick up the sword and fight the battle the day, or pick up my toolbox and begin fixing my life and other people's lives,
00:27:19
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I've already determined that my day starts off by putting Jesus at the center. And then it's interesting. I reached out with Steve yesterday and he's like, friends, you know, with all these deliverances, he's like, you know, how do you feel after them?
00:27:34
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And I said, I don't. I said, what I do need to do in that session. And then like a therapist or a counselor, I shall. But if the session's over, it's over. Okay. If God's held me something during the week, I'll pray or don' take notes.
00:27:47
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But in general, once it's over, once that chapter the day is done, i don't carry around people's burdens away in me then. I'm like, okay, part of the shelf now, we gave that the time I needed. That's okay for now. But I give, i just I just put it back in God's hands exclusively, rather than carrying the way for myself.
00:28:07
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Because otherwise you would run yourself into the land. Yeah. So I start off today with Jesus. Of course, I'll pray to him throughout. um But you always have to come back to your peace. You always have to come back to your first love.
00:28:23
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You always have to come back to Christ. Thank you. Thank you. And otherwise you just end up carrying this big weight on your back, on your shoulders.
00:28:35
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And that's what runs you into the ground. Because I used to have this mentality of you doing,
Finding Rest and Peace with God
00:28:41
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doing, doing, doing. i But actually it's less about doing, it's more about being.
00:28:48
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It's less about doing Christian stuff, it's more about being in Christ. If your mind... jump in Go for it, Rambus. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Thank you, Rambus.
00:28:58
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Yeah, that's what you said, you know, with the work. Scott gave me that, just just put that word, the healing word, you know. I need restoration of shoulders, you know, and that's when I drop from the bike, you know, that palm, the um fingers, you know, it's still not completely restored.
00:29:18
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and And he said, take it seriously this time, you know. So it's that point, because I realise if I just go pray, pray, pray, you know, they it prayer is not only about, you know, intercession, but it's about, as well, you know, a change of your real mind.
00:29:33
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So it won't happen automatically, you know, if I just a couple of times look at, you know, during the day, it's like intentional, you know, like you loan me, you know, these things you need to see because otherwise you've got so much information, you know, during the day.
00:29:53
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yeah so much interactions with the people good, bad and sometimes ugly and if you allow that you know information to come then you are completely know without any armour, without helmet of salvation you now without lifting a shield of ah of a faith you know and without a sword like you just said about it that you need time yourself, you know, in the Word and with God. That's very, very true. Amen.
00:30:32
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Yeah, amen. Things start changing. If you just set up serve, then you'll just like, you'll just pull yourself out. Isn't it like with John Gillet happened, isn't it?
00:30:45
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With his story, when his wife died and all the family accused him because he was serving, serving everyone around him. He healed and suddenly His wife out of exhaustion just dies and everyone is in shock.
00:30:59
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You know so many miracles so everything and then the family Kids were struggling to accept Christ. No, yeah, of course it would be Yeah, it's so true. Yeah, it's so important that you You know, let's say what God would have you about you know your priorities are you don't aim Drain yourself or your family or household looking after everybody else and actually withholding from yourself and from the people that God has entrusted to you first and foremost. Yeah.
00:31:33
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It's so, so easy to try to be everyone else's superhero. and But actually, if you lose the core focus looking after yourself and your household, and the Bible says not looking after your family. Yeah.
00:31:46
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But looking after everyone else, it actually makes you worse than an unbeliever. and it's it's where It's shameful, actually. So, yeah yeah. So, so important. Amen.
00:31:58
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Amen. all Alright, guys, let's have a look and now at the next
Nathan's Parable and Revelation
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chapter. 2 Samuel 12. wow When the secret gets out.
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Okay, the Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan is a prophet. David had a team of prophets who he entrusted to speak God's word to him. Yes, David had a prophetic gift, but it's one thing hearing something, it's another thing when someone else confirms the word.
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So when he came to him, he said, now, two things are happening here. Nathan is sharing a parable. A story with a second meaning.
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Okay, Nathan's sharing a parable.
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David does not know this is a parable. David thinks this is a crime report. So his response but is, that well, unintentionally he tells on himself.
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and And he comes across quite hypocritical. So David hears this as a crime report. It's actually a parable. So Nathan says there were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.
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The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought.
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He raised it and grew it up with him and his children.
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It shared his food, drank from his cup, and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him." and The whole, it slept in his arms should be a clue who we're talking about now.
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Now traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who came to him. So the traveler is like, you know, I need a place to stay. I'm hungry, I'm thirsty.
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And the rich man is like, well, you're not getting my stuff. Instead, the rich man took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.
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So basically, the rich man steals the poor man. Says here, take this.
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David burned with anger against the rich man. Because remember, he doesn't know this a parable. He doesn't know this is ah the prophet speaking in riddles.
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He thinks this is actually Nathan reporting a real life crime. And said to Nathan, As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die.
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if only he knew what he was saying. He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.
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Then Nathan said to David, You are that man.
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David was the rich man. David was the king.
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David had a number of sheep. He had eight wives. David had a lot of cattle. He had a lot of concubines.
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Uriah only had one little ewe lamb that he slept with his arms. Uriah, the poor man, only had one wife, Bathsheba.
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This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. I anointed you king over Israel and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
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I think it is very interesting that God brings up Saul right now because what David did to Uriah is the same thing Saul had done to David years earlier.
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You might remember that when David And when Saul was trying to kill David, he said, oh, and would you like to marry my daughter? And David said, I'm a poor man. I'm not worthy of your daughter. No, thanks.
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And Saul's like, but she's really in love with you. And David said, nah, you're you're fine. I don't deserve this. And Saul said, oh how about you kill 100 Philistines and I'll give it to you? And David was said, yeah, okay, that's that's fair.
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And Saul would put David in military situations and try to kill him. That is the same thing David did to Uriah. The very same thing Saul had done to him, trying to kill him on the battlefield. He'd go, whoopsie, it wasn't my fault, it was the Philistines.
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David did the same to Uriah, only blamed the Ammonites.
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I gave your master's house to you. I gave you the throne.
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And your master's wives into your arms. And... Now that i could be maybe souls, concubines, William David's concubines.
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It could also be like symbolic transfer of power.
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I gave you all Israel and Judah. um So Israel's in the north, Judah's in the south. And if all this had been too little, if only Israel and Judah had been too little, you wanted more territory, you wanted more land.
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I would have given you even more.
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Why did you despise? Isn't this interesting? Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his sight?
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This is God saying, do not pretend you love the Bible if you're blatantly disobeying it. Do not say, God, I love your word, if you're doing the opposite of what it says.
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Don't say, God, your word is so good, if you're living contrary to it. God says, if you're not doing what I told you to do, it's because you hate the word of God.
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And the word of God is two things. One, it's the written word of God. And secondly, think of John chapter 1.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Nothing has been made that was not made through the Word.
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The Word of God is a person who's also Jesus. So the Bible is Jesus in paper and ink form. The Word of God as a person is Jesus. So if you are doing the opposite of what God says,
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Father God says it's because you despise the Bible and Jesus. That is how seriously God takes obedience and disobedience. It's not a laughing matter.
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Even I feel humbled saying that right now. feel like just writing a list of all the things that I may possibly be doing incorrectly. You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword.
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Now, you could say, well, it wasn't David. Literally, David is the one who gave the instruction. he knew what he was doing. And God says, you can pass the blame on to Joab. You can blame the Ammonites. You set the wheels in motion.
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This was in your heart, and you executed the plan. You executed him. And you took his wife to be rotten. It wasn't bad enough to kill him.
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You then stole from him. And you'd already stolen from him through adultery.
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You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me. Look
Generational Curses and Redemption
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at this. God the Father is revealed through God the Son.
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God the Son is revealed through Word. The Word of God, the Bible, Came from the word of God, Jesus. Jesus a picture of God the Father. So God is saying here, if you disobey the word of gods it is because you hate the Bible.
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You hate Jesus and you hate him. That is how seriously he takes this. God is really shooting straight in this chapter. He's taking no prisoners.
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Because you despised me. and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.
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Now there are a couple things we can take from verse 10. One... Sorry, I'm just asking Brandon. It says here, Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house. Did he mean what you've done this rather than the actual sword itself? Great question. This is called the law of attraction. Yes, that's right.
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Jesus, would when he was getting arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, his servant Peter took a sword and chopped off the chief priest's ear and was like, get away from Jesus.
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And Jesus said, stop Peter. Those who live by the sword die by the sword. Because David had brought murder into his family tree,
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there would be a generational curse on his family across the generations of murder, of violence, and of bloodshed. And that is exactly what we see across the rest of the Old Testament.
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You have incredibly embarrassingly few good kings in God's country, Israel or Judah, after David.
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Very, very few. In fact, even the good kings typically go rogue at some point in their story. And for the vast majority of them, they got involved in murder, in conspiracy theories. Sorry, not this conspiracy theories. Conspiracy plots and conspiracies.
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and Human sacrifice, especially the sacrifice of children and babies. This would follow the whole way through the rest of the Old Testament, right up until...
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A king was born through David's line who was given a crown of thorns rather than a crown of gold. His name is Jesus. He's one who broke that off.
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But up until Jesus, almost every king who had come from David's lineage, and there would be violence in their in their history, violence in their lives, violence in their reign, in their rulership.
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It's the same a in the days of Noah, for instance, where you had Neonephilim running around and every thought and intention they had was violent and everything that they did was violent.
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Well, what happened to them? a violent flood came to wash them away. Or we looked at Jacob in the Wednesday of the Cyprus a few weeks ago.
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And Jacob was a con man, he was a liar, he was very deceptive, he was deceiver. So what happened? His uncle deceived him.
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What you are willing to do to others, you can anticipate others will do to you. That's the law of attraction in its simplest form. Is that what like reaping and sowing is? Reaping and sowing, exactly. You'll reap what you sow.
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If you reap deception, Sorry, if you sow deception, you will reap a harvest of being deceived. And think of in this nation, and large, people have turned away from the Lord. They've chosen, they know, the human depopulation project of the globalists.
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And what's happened? Well, look at murder rates. They're up in their thousands. i or if you know a nation decides aim to start dabbling in witchcraft, for instance, well, what happens?
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The nation fall under the bondage of witchcraft. You see in the Tower of Babel, the people decided to build temple tower structures to Dark angels, and what happened? Those angels then snatched up the nations, and they became despots and kings and queens of the demonic realm. People became slaves to them, which is still true today.
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and Globally, all around the world, nations, cities, towns, villages, continents are under the thrall of the demonic. Because people sowed wickedness, so they reaped a harvest of wickedness.
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So it's a So god wasn't it wasn't so much that God was word cursing them when he was telling them the consequence of his action. Yeah. Here you have the consequence for sin.
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um It's a prophecy based on... You see, the thing is, sowing and reaping, we understand it in the natural.
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If you have a farm, you have a field. It's only a natural law. because it starts as a supernatural law. It's one of those, it was already true in the supernatural realm. You sow and you reap. You do wicked things, bad things happen to you.
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You sow seeds of goodness and righteousness and God blesses you. That's why he says it's more blessed to give than to receive. And they're not under compulsion, but if you're generously giving because what God told you to you will then receive more abundance from God to have sustained you as a reward is a blessing.
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So this thing started as true in the supernatural realm. and then and therefore, when God made the physical world, he kept the same principle. um But with this, because of what David did, he brought this into his lineage and therefore it would continue down through the generations.
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So then so it was so then they kind of became like a generational curse and obviously Jesus is going to come and wipe it clean but applying that then to our families, isn't it that the curse is only then snowballing and get worse worse so somebody... So someone breaks it, exactly, yeah. and Would God try to be breaking it at every generation? People are choosing not to in or it's like he has to wait until a certain person. Great question, great question.
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And not one I had an answer to up until a lot later in life than I would have liked. and The reality is, about it, it's fine. If you need to see one, just get one more from there.
00:47:56
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I wouldn't have said. when you follow the story of David's descendants, you will see that with an act of their will, they chose to murder.
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With an act of their will, they chose rape. Well, an act of their will, they chose to kill their siblings. Well, in an act of their will, they did this, that, and other.
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The thing with the generational curse, when it's from God, it was a prophecy. Because of what you've done, this can happen. It's a consequence your sin. But because he's God, it was always true.
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it's that people chose to do this. There was, again, an inbuilt wound in their heart, an inbuilt disposition towards sin in their heart, a predisposition. but they would choose to carry it out.
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So this is not the God's brain-washing or controlling people. You're going to be a murderer. This is God releasing the prophetic word, and the prophecy was true. seeing what it's what it's going to do Exactly. And it did not take long before even in David's children this word came fulfillment, which we're going to at very soon.
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you think... When you were saying prophetic word, I what you mean by that, but was he saying, like, because you've done this, this is what's going to happen, that... But they all had a choice. Always. Always. It's like, God might give me a word, and I might say something like... During the gatehouse one day, I said, God gave me a word.
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Look... to the airplanes there's gonna be a thing where people just start crashing planes and helicopters on a ridiculous level how long is that days before suddenly in the u.s s you know one plane left ireland or was coming into ireland and crashed or whatever that helicopter was this and then i do not know how many plane and helicopter crashes i've heard of since the And the number of them that people in line are like, okay, well, this person was a DEI They weren't actually qualified to fly. They were given a position because of their identity rather their skills. Or this looks very intentional. I had to release the word God gave me.
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But I'm not responsible for what happens in an airplane if that people chose to to carry this out. Mm-hmm. Or there might times when God gives me a word and I might say, okay, and this person is going to this or there's going to murder here. Someone's going to do this here.
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Now you can pray against these things to a stop them from the tracks. But when God gives a prophetic word, it's not that he's controlling it. Now, okay, if he says, you know, I'm going to do, that's different. But if he says people are going to this, a person is to do this, the answer is this.
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God's not putting the idea in their head. Yeah. He's giving you advance warning and advance heads up as to what the human will and human decisions are.
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So in this, he's saying, because you sinned, you brought this into your family. i am It's going to be a consequence for your sin. and You've normalized this. You've injected this like poison into your fight into your soul. And it's going to trickle down through generations and But across generation and generation and generation and generation generation generation generation and generation, hundreds of pages of the Bible, you would see that the descendants of David would deliberately choose murder, deliberately choose violence, killing babies, killing God's people, hunting down prophets, and trying to eradicate anyone who actually would call out sin, eradicate Anahulu who would prophesy against the wickedness and declare God's will. and But they would chose to do an act of their will.
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And then obviously we're going be reading the next, but if, let's say David, he knew what's wrong already, what he did, and he realised what he'd done, and he became really repentant and then stopped, would it still be too late because then...
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To me, making it it kind of makes it sound like, of course, you know you should repent because you have to, but the power of it sealing or stopping a curse will then now it's run its course on your end. Now it has to be a new line. Does that make sense? Great question. So the thing with these generational curses is they transfer through blood and through bodily fluids, meaning blood, sex, all these other things.
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That is why when Jesus came about 1,000 years later, from the line of David, actually, if you look at de the ge Jesus' i am human ancestry, you're like, whore, murderer, adultery, scallywag, thief, disobedient.
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Of all the families Jesus would come from, as i it's a messed up one. Which is good, because we're all messed up and we all need Jesus. But when you get saved, when you put your faith in the finished work of the cross, supernaturally, we're told his blood washes over you, his blood cleans you.
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So that's what breaks it off. Because you're part of God's family now, and in God there is no sin. In God there is no evil, there is no wickedness. So in your soul, you might still have these issues, but then you appropriate the blood of Jesus. You say, no.
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No, the last four generations you're aware of may have ended in divorce. The last four generations you're aware of have all had murder. The last three generations you're aware of may all have seen the miscarriage of twins. That's a big one in my dad's family. and But I'm part of a new bloodline.
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Jesus' bloodline. And Jesus... That's locked off. Jesus, that is stopped. And Jesus... He hung that cross. He said, it is finished. The debt is paid.
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The penalty for sin is paid. And I stand on what Jesus said. i appropriate what Jesus said. I do not settle for the enemy's report. yeah Whatever I have done, evil it was.
00:54:26
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Jesus took that on himself. He buried it in the grave. He rose again in new life. The only wounds he had were holding his hands, and if he puts his hand to his face because you embarrass him, can still see you.
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His eyes are still on you. He still loves you. He did not come back with trauma. He didn't come back with PTSD. He didn't come back with daddy issues. didn't come back with my mother never said she loved me.
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He came back whole and complete. And that is the blood that now defines us. when God looks at you, he sees you are holy, he sees you are perfect, you are in him. Amen, amen.
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ah He says you're a new creation. So you're not bound to the ancestral issues. Well, that's like literally. Exactly, exactly. Yeah.
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It totally was for me. Because I thought you weren't to scare people, you know, talking too much because that's true. If that was an Old Testament and we've been redeemed from that a curse of the law, if you don't do everything what is written, you actually and go on to the curse.
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Like you described, you know, and nobody could actually perform perfectly law. So they added sacrifices, which are little bit covered, but didn't solve the problem, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. ah The word said that a curse without a cause cannot land.
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So if the enemy ascending curses your way, generational curses your way, a word curses your way, and it lands, it it sticks, it comes to effect, it's because there's an open door in your life. There's a platform, there's a landing strip.
00:56:15
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So a curse without a cause cannot land. It only lands if the people involved are you somehow complicit or they have an open door an open window to that affliction.
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and yeah is Commonality you know is vulnerable. Darkness makes you vulnerable to darkness.
00:56:47
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yeah they're A little bit interfere. Yeah, um I was about, to like he said, the open doors and biggest open doors I've i'll noticed so far, it's not believing the word of God, what says, it says we said you are holy, then you are holy.
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e And every time we don't believe, that we actually leave open doors. If he says, you are safe from this and that, and we call sometimes, even, hadn't seen church that they would call things as the scripture calls, you know, but often they call names and I thought,
00:57:22
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be careful guys with these labels because you might say label it could be contradictory to scripture and you literally help leave the doors open and like you said you know you mentioned that if we are new creatures we are new creatures then we walk by faith but if we don't walk by it then we walk by flesh oh so right the tendency all right now the rituals you know things tracks on Because he'd been and I'd been and she'd been or whatever in my family and in my situation.
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we go, no, no, no. Scripture says I'm a new creation. i am like lot of him. Because it goes, when we comprehend on him what type of person Jesus is, same we are.
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And when we comprehend that, when when we think about it, we become like him. actually it's done on the cross, so it's believing. It's the same with Adam. He said the word not touch. He touched, right, the problem came into the earth, and there goes more like that with the second Adam, who actually destroyed all of it, all these creepy things, you know, enemy was trying to see, and all these creepy things, you know, sexual abuse, you know, ritual, you know, and all that Bolshevism,
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He just blotted it out. And if you believe, it starts working in you. It's our faith which overcomes the world, isn't it? Amen, amen. Yeah, it's... Sometimes Christians might say, and i don't know why going through all this because, I mean, I'm i'm i'm a Christian now. I shouldn't still be struggling with all this.
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But you're a new creation in your spirit. Your spirit is brought to life. Your soul... your mind, your heart, your your will, that's a work in progress.
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When you first believe that Jesus' death and resurrection and his lordship are sufficient for your forgiveness, ours your total forgiveness, are sufficient for your right standing with God, are sufficient for your adoption as a son or daughter, you're okay.
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Now it's sufficient for you becoming a citizen of heaven. Not when you die, right now. That's salvation. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Salvation is a lifelong process of the Lord clearing out your from trauma, from PTSD, from wounds, from bad, incorrect, harmful, and...
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counterfeit doctrines you picked up and mindsets you picked up and beliefs you picked up and strongholds you picked up. That's sanctification and it's lifelong. And one of the best ways to speed up the process is to make a decision to believe the Lord. When Jesus says it is finished, let your sin be finished.
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When Jesus says i have forgiven you, accept that you're forgiven. When he says, I've loved you with an undone love, I accept that you are loved and he will never leave you nor forsake you.
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Even when times get tough, the word God says, you know I'm crushed, but I'm not abandoned. The walls are closing in on all sides, but you're still on my side, you still got me.
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Even when the houses are tight, the word God says, let the poor say, I am rich. Even when God tells you, want to bless that person, financially and you're thinking, I really don't want to the word God says more blessed to give him than to receive.
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And the sooner we reach that point of taking him at his word and just believing him and trusting him, it speeds up the sanctification process.
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Otherwise, you drag your feet and you go through it so, so sluggishly and you only actually assist the enemy. and holding on to parts of your soul, on to parts of your body, holding on to parts of your life for far longer.
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But
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the signification process is sped up marvelously hastily with great acceleration when you reach a point where you say, God, I choose to believe you.
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I'm no longer going to call you a liar. Because I mean, I spent so many years of my life thinking, you know, I'm just a poor bully, nobody loves me, I'm just a poor bully from a poor family.
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Well, you know what? I live with poverty mentality and law of attraction. I looked around and there was nobody who loved me. Why? Because anyone who ever tried to, they couldn't get through the walls that I'd already built up of unloved.
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I had to reach a point and say, if God says he loves me, he loves me and I just have to receive it. I had this poor man's mentality of you know, I'm never going to achieve anything. I'm to get anywhere in life.
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The word of God says, i know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you. I had to make a decision to step into that. and the word says, i pray, this is doing a job.
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I pray that you will prosper in your soul and in your physical health and everything else in your life will So when I saw that my physical health and my external reality was not prospering, because my soul was not prospering.
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the one who was stopping it from prospering was me. I had to make a decision and say, okay, Lord, i want to step into soul prosperity. And where I remember the joy of my salvation, where i remember your peace, your happiness, how wholesome that is.
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And how the joy of the Lord is our strength. um There were times in my life when I was having health issues. And okay, I sat around feeling sorry for myself for a while. And then one day, a woman that I've only seen a very small handful of times in my life. She's gone to glory now. She was amazing. Her name was Mycela Boyle.
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She called on the telephone. Yes, back in the days when people actually used the house telephone. And I think she was looking in for my dad. He didn't answer. My sister did. And Marcella goes, oh, and how's your younger brother, Brendan?
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And my sister says, oh, he's having a lot of health problems right now. Marcella got quiet for a second and just said, Tracy, ask your brother if he has unforgiveness in his heart.
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And Tracy goes,
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I was in my room on my bed, you know, looking after my wounds, trying not to move. And I was like, Yeah, and my best friend, Dara. and She goes, yeah, his best friend and really ticked him off.
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And Marcella said, that's the landing strip. If he forgives his friend, he'll be healed instantly. You know what? I forgave my friend and I was up and running around an hour later.
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He would later tick me off again. I had to laugh him off eventually. God, bring him back if that's your will.
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But there comes a point where you have to stop resisting God. There comes a point where you have to stop saying, well, I'll choose the parts I want to believe and I'll ignore the parts I don't want to believe.
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There comes a part where you have to stop saying, well, God, your word says that, but this is my lived experience. There comes a point where you have to stop calling God a liar because he is revealed through his word.
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And if you are doing the opposite what he says... He says you despise him. I would always have said that I've loved God my whole life long.
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I haven't always lived the word of God all that much or all that well, but I would always have said that I loved God. It's not his opinion. If you disobey him, you despise him. Think if you have parents in the natural and they give you, you know, a curfew, you to be home at such and such an hour and you always come home late.
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Or they have you know some household rules, reasonable good rules, and you choose to break them. They say in this house, we say please, we say I'm sorry, we say thank, we use manners.
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And you treat them with flagrant disrespect. and you know They get you up for school in the morning. you know They wash your clothes, they iron your clothes, they're always ready, your school uniform. You always have you know a lunch and dinner and breakfast and supper and everything else.
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and they find out that whenever you leave the house, all you do is badmouth them, how would your parents feel? They would feel dishonored, they'd feel disrespected, they would feel like you didn't give a toss about them, they would feel like you hated them.
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That didn't start with humans. That started with God. He regards your obedience levels, and it's not about doing, it's about being his child, but the doing, it's important to an extent, it is.
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But if you're intentionally only ever doing the opposite of what he says, he says it's because you have an issue with him personally. That is how strict and how seriously he takes obedience.
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He doesn't give laws and rules and commands to restrict your thumb, to hold you back. He does it so you live in the maximum freedom that he allows.
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And I can think of times in my life where i have not done that. i I always read over the word before and you know we start the session, just to see if God has anything new for me in it.
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And he brought some things up from my past today. and remember the first one was quite innocent. I was in play school, and or what's called, Aladdin's cave, just here in the town.
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And i remember I was playing with a friend in like a jungle gym or something. And I would have been like, don't know, three or four years old. His name was Andrew. But I accidentally poked him in the eye. And he was like, you know, ah, threw on this dramatic display. Now, I think that like the teachers knew was an accident. So they're of like, you're Andrew. But I was like, God, why did I think of that while reading this story today?
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the Lord said, that was the first time in your life you ever felt ashamed. and I was like, oh, wow. oh Because I do not remember much from my childhood. I'd say I remember abnormally little compared to most people.
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But that is something that every so many years would come back to me. And i was like, okay, God, I actually think that would be... remember that being the first time i ever was like, the ability to hurt somebody exists within me.
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And then fast forward a few years, and all this came back to me this morning. And were two kids in my stage. I'm not going to name them in case they ever watch this back. but but but but a But um i was in my front garden.
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And for some reason, they just came up to my front garden wall and just began like you know cussing at me and harassing me. I was like, what? that I don't deserve this. It's crazy. But back then and in my garden, we had massive boulders, big stones around trees.
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And I mean, they must have weighed anywhere from 5, 10, 15 kilograms easily. And even though I was very young, was still very strong. And I got this sudden, you know, the the fight, fright or flight response.
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I got this sudden, I have to fight to defend myself, to protect myself. Like from their are words, you know, nothing physical was happening here. But I got this sudden wave of stress like my life was on the line.
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And I reached down, scooped up, picked up this massive boulder. And was, I'm not a tall guy now. I was tiny as a child. And somehow I threw it over the wall.
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as And it was flying in slow motion. you
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Like a superhero movie. But as soon as it crossed over wall, I just remembered it just dropped.
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And think well this was my intention. i felt like had to protect myself. But as soon as it went to the mall, it dropped on his foot. Which was my intention.
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But suddenly it was like, this is not a movie. This isn't Scooby-Doo where someone gets hurt. But you know, blue little they're flying two seconds later.
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The reality of it, when I heard the stone crunch his bones and his skin,
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I got this shiver in my in the insides. thank you What's that mean? Shiver. Shiver.
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Shiver. Shiver, it's when you start involuntarily shaking. You can't. oh you dead like When you're cold or afraid, you need that. I thank you. Okay, now i understand.
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Yeah, I got this sick, twisted, disgusting feeling on the inside. because I knew his foot was crushed.
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And he had to up to hospital and get attacked. Now, thankfully, no one ever came to the front door um afterwards. But, well, his friend did, but nothing came to it. But again, that sense that I'd had Aladdin's cave a child, the potential to hurt somebody is in me.
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And there would be times throughout my life where I would, Be in a situation, and I can blame the devil, but I was responsible for where I put myself. i was responsible for where, for not being where God would have me.
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Where I have this feeling of shame, of filth, of dirt, of slime, smarminess. And... There was even one time I was a leader at a summer camp.
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I think it might have been 18, 19. And I just, I prayed for someone basically, which I thought was quite normal at a Christian summer camp. and But another leader came up and looked at me when I was praying.
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And I wasn't, you know, the the eyes closed, you holy spirit, fire come down, spirit of depression. it was nothing like that. um But the way that leader looked at me, You know when someone gives you the stink eye, they look to you dirty way, and you know what's going on in their head I had this moment of, God, this is going to go badly.
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And he then went to the other, to the the leaders who are over the ministry, to over the summer camp. And basically, I was called in before then. You would swear i had molested this kid I prayed for.
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the way that they spoke to me, the way that they looked at me, the way that they treated me. i was thinking, what is actually happening? Brendan, Brendan, Brendan, Brendan.
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Did you say that they say you were molested? or like They treated me like I had. They didn't say those words, but that was the way they responded to me.
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It was the way they made me feel. and And then they said, go to your dorm, the room I was sharing with the guys, because I was their leader.
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And they said, get all of your belongings, all your bedclothes, all your possessions, and leave. And I was thinking, okay. So did this, like, absolutely ashamed.
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And this is in Drew's turn house, where we had the revival back in June. It didn't happen last year, happened long time ago, but same place. And then they said, okay, you have to sleep in a different building from your team. And I was like, what is what is happening here? All I did was pray for someone at a Bible camp.
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And let's see, we're right in the stables out the back, for those of you who know the venue. And they said, have to go into the house on the very top floor. And we did a treasure hunt. The table was at the top? No.
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all the very, very, very top. Oh, okay. and And they made me put all my belongings there and sleep on the floor. I was thinking, what is happening?
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It was, i'm telling you, I almost forgot that I was innocent. I actually forgot that I had done nothing legally wrong. Because for the next year, i had this feeling, it was like things were crawling all over my body.
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And every morning i would be in the shower, just showering for an hour, scrubbing every inch of my skin, feeling like dirt, like literal dirt.
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this May I say something? You can. I'm going to finish my thought first. This absolute feeling of disgust, all of me, that I couldn't get clean, couldn't wash off, couldn't shake off.
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And it took if about eight or nine, and I didn't say this to anybody. was far too ashamed. But about eight or nine months later, and my housemates and I is at university at the time had a come dine with me night where he made, let's see, my friend made, one of my friends made the star, forget what that was.
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He was vegetarian, so he made a vegetarian um chili con carne. Never tell anyone I ate vegetarian food, but it was pretty good.
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And then I made a trifle with Dr. Oatker vegetarian jelly. Never tell anyone I ever made vegetarian trifle, but I did, and it was pretty darn good. I have this thing where I don't eat food with a V, vegetarian or vegan, but it was it was tasty.
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And then afterwards, then the two of us got talking about the first night. I actually shared this with anyone, and he started thinking me, and there was such healing that night. But that is the, i don't even know why I'm sharing all of these things are directly related to the story, but God just impressed these things on my mind this morning and just to share, just to say that you will have moments when you are responsible for something.
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You will have moments when you're not responsible for it, but it just happens. You'll have moments when you put yourself somewhere in the wrong place and these things happen.
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You'll have moments when you are completely and utterly innocent on all charges. But the enemy will try to grip you with fear, guilt, and shame. Shame is the big one.
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It destroys lives. yeah oh Billions of people are separated from God right now, alive on the earth today, and burning it all.
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Because the enemy injected shame into their life. And rather than running to God, they ran from him.
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But the important thing is whether it's shame you're not responsible for, you are partly responsible for, you are totally responsible for, You run back to God immediately. You don't do an Adam and Eve and start hiding behind bushes.
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You don't do a David and say, well, someone else is going to pay the price. Someone else has to suffer for what I did. It's a coming to God because if he says, i am love itself, give up the fight and just believe him.
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If he says, I'll never leave you nor forsake you, Stop telling yourself he has forsaken you and just believe him. If he says, i love you with an undying love, stop killing yourself and go to his love.
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If he says, i have reconciled you to myself or in good relationship, stop pretending you're in a bad one or you don't have one. If he says, you are righteous, stop telling yourself you're a dirtbag.
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If he says you are justified, it's just as if you never sinned. Stop sitting around in your house thinking you it all the times you got it wrong. If he says, I've dealt with this on the cross, stop crucifying yourself.
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He crucified your sin the day he whoified was crucified on that cross. It was a once and for all time transaction. You don't have to pick up again. it was a one and done and he dealt with it. It's reaching that point where you just say,
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Enough is enough. I've given up the fight, and I choose to bully them. I wasn't going to share this, but God's impressed this on my mind twice now.
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But even when I was 14, 15, I think, um I knew nothing about human intimacy. Not really. So I went looking for it online, and out curiosity, it was 100% information-based. Mm-hmm.
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informationbased At the start, I began finding a whole world of vocabulary that I had not known before. I love words.
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I was very curious. i looked into it out of complete curiosity and ended up getting addicted to pornography. And I did not want to dishonor women because I was like a teenage feminist or some nonsense.
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So i ended up watching homosexual pornography. And I'm telling you, it latched onto to me i had a grip for years. And just like David, he was on that rooftop, not looking to spy women taking a bath.
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He was just there and the exposure was accidental. My life, same thing. He is responsible for telling Messenger For those of you who wondering why I keep putting paper up, this is the Bible chapters on the sheet...
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um He is responsible for getting the messenger to inquire about her. He is responsible for summoning her to his bedroom. He is responsible for everything that took place next.
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And even when the exposure was accidental, when the sin was accidental, when it catching a grip on you was accidental, that also yeah made me feel...
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like scum, or dirty, or filthy, or not good enough, or distant from God. It only made me more distant from people. I'd already been very distant. It just made things worse.
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um Because now I could settle for... amazing for pixels online. But you know what? actually love those strawberries are the shape of hearts.
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But the heart of God... is towards you. The heart of God is for the lost. The heart of God is for the broken.
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The heart of God is for the ashamed. The heart of God is for the people who feel they're not good enough for it. The heart of God is for the people who have been told they're not good enough for it.
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The heart of God is for the people who have only ever had people lining up. to tell them that they're not worthy. Here they you don't deserve anything from God, none of us do.
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But God says you are worth the blood of Jesus.
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And when I say that, sometimes it confuses people and they think, isn't that the same thing? i like to think of myself as as a relatively safe driver. Some my passengers disagree. I think I do quite a good job.
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If, however, I were to take a notion to go speeding one day. I know that the... Some of you have been in my car, but like... if the speed limit is 50 kilometers per hour, and I decide to spend the next 30 minutes driving at 80 kilometers per hour, and I get a letter from the guards, you must go to the courtroom.
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I will not be rewarded by a judge For all the times i drove at 50 kilometers per hour, when the speed sign said 50. I'll be judged in a courtroom or condemned for the one time I chose to drive at 80.
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You get judged in a courtroom by the bad thing you do, not the good things you've done. So you're condemned by the sin. You're condemned by missing the mark. You're condemned by the disobedience.
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What you are worth, well, that's the value of something. I had to get a new phone this month, last year, and because Colin's boss stopped accepting money for the paper test tickets for town trips. You had to start using the newjo app, right? and So I literally couldn't go to work. I had to go buy a new phone to get the app to get to work, which crazy.
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I forget how much this cost. Let's say 100 euro. I asked for the cheapest phone have.
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That phone is worth 100 euro because that is how much people are willing to pay for it.
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How much was Jesus willing to pay for you in the room on the Zoom from what? The blood of Jesus Christ. God looked at you on your worst day, on your most wicked day on the day when you were David writing that letter to Uriah.
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whereas i About Uriah to Joab to kill Uriah. And then like, oh my goodness, Uriah died. What a shock. What a shame. Horror. hey Aghast. God looks at you on that day and it says, you are worth Jesus getting whipped to shreds, getting punched beaten, kicked and spat Having people wrap him in a purple robe, say, ooh, you're the king of the Jews, ooh.
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Sticking a thorn bush, a thorn crown in his head. Nailing him to cross that he himself had to carry, to his hands, through his feet.
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And then just to mock him, getting a hyssop stick and feeding him a sponge of vinegar, not even wine, not water, intentionally vinegar just as a further insult to injury, to make him thirstier, to make him suffer even more.
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On your worst day, God says, that is what you're worth. You are worth my one true, perfect, holy, amazing, life-giving, regeneration-having,
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resurrection-empowered son, going through all of that, dying, and going to the realm of the dead.
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That is where God sees you. He doesn't say scumbag. He doesn't say harlot. He doesn't say whore. or He doesn't say emotional abuser.
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He doesn't say not good enough. He doesn't filth. He doesn't say liar. He doesn't say the thing that you hate people did to you or you've done to other people. Yeah, I know about that.
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Instead, it says he remembers your sin no more. As far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed your sin from you.
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If this is the earth, you can measure south to north. It's a very big number. You cannot measure east to west.
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It goes on and on and on and on and on. on It is gone from your spirit, man, or your spirit woman, forever. That is what it means to be a child of God.
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If he says it's finished, let it be finished. If he says it's dead and gone, For goodness sakes, let it be dead and gone. Believe that it is. Believe it. Appropriate it by faith.
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Stop the fight. Stop the war. Stop resisting him Stop giving him, yeah, but, well, what if? If only, well, in my lived experience.
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He says he doesn't remember it, so why do you remember it? He says it's dead gone. Let be dead and gone. He says it is so far ahead of you and behind you, you can't catch up with it. Stop trying to catch up with it.
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Just let it go. Be done with it.
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Brenda, can I say something? First you can, you need say, yep. So you were talking about righteousness. and Our
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spirit our spirit By the way, can you hear me well? Perfectly, Anita. Yeah, very clearly. who Good. So our spirit man is right.
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ah Hold on. How do you say? Our spirit man or our spirit is righteous in Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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Amen. How do you say? If a person... and ah is committing a sin. Let's say for example, ball um I did lie yesterday.
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yeah So now people are thinking, oh, I'm not righteous anymore because I did lie yesterday. they are They are not understanding that it's not about their soul and body.
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It's about their spirit, you know? Exactly. Your spirit is still alive. Correct. Yeah. And yes. And the the spirit is still righteous.
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Yes. Sin does not affect your spirit. Your spirit is still a pure, sanctified, righteous, holy, perfect.
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You know, but so many of us, if I'm talking about And I'm saying the body of Christ. Yes. We are so much. I, I, I, I. Me, me, me, me.
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I, I, I, I. Okay. But how about Jesus? And I'm not talking about heavy grace. I'm talking about Jesus.
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The truth is. If I or you or Naomi or whoever liked yesterday, masturbated yesterday, did what's born yesterday, whatever we did yesterday, it doesn't matter in that sense that we are still righteous. It doesn't go away. Jesus is not like...
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oh Oh, oh, okay. So you did lie yesterday. Oh, no, no, no. You are not righteous anymore. No, because he gave his righteousness to us.
Understanding Righteousness and Grace
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But that is the thing. If we don't understand, and I am also talking about to my i'm also talking to myself, because this is now that I have been learning, you know?
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and So... If we are just, but I did this and that. I did, i did, i did. So we don't even understand. It's about our spirit, not up about our soul or about our body.
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Now Satan can come. And still, if the Lord says, Naomi, you are righteous, but you don't understand it. Hello, Satan comes. No, Naomi, you are not righteous. You just did lie yesterday.
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So we have to have, including me, we have to have a revelation that our spirit is righteous and this is just I have been learning because I've been watching I have been if I can say now this word cladon you know Carriage Bible College there is a teacher named
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ah courage by colleagues terry sub updates are named Andrew Womack, and he is talking so much about righteousness, etc.
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And then I was watching and hearing him, I was like... So now finally, because I was used to be this, me, me, me, and my sin, me, and my sin, I didn't see anything else, but me,
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and my sin. But then he was like, no, your spirit is righteous. You are redeemed once and for all. Jesus died once.
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In Old Testament, priests, people have to sacrifice animals time and time and time, time, time, time after a game.
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But Jesus died once. So we are sanctified and redeemed and made righteous once. And when I'm searing, was like, thank you, Holy Spirit, for leading me to... Please don't get me wrong.
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and funny I'm hearing all strawberries.
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Amen. Yes. yes Yeah. No, so, so good. and the And the problem is a lot of church congregations don't talk about the difference between the soul and the spirit. Exactly. faint They're the same thing.
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So when you do something wrong, and I'm talking actually, let's just use the word, a dirty word. When you commit sin. If people don't know the difference.
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A lot of Christians actually think that your soul or spirit, because they don't know the difference, just dies and you're a sinner. And then what happens is you have people who think, if I die and the last thing I did was sin, then I'm going to go to hell.
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And then you have people who think, oh, well, if I'm on my deathbed, I need a very specific person to come and pray you for me. I'm going to die and go hell. Or then they do die and then they hope someone comes and they're in a waiting place and pray them out that way, place in heaven. It's nuts.
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And it all comes from people not knowing the difference between the soul and spirit. The spirit of every believer is fully alive. The soul still has issues.
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And it's a lifelong journey to getting the soul healed, restored, and fixed. But it's well worth it. So I'm going to say, when you were saying, um oh you know, God says, i love you. So it's not, I love, he loves me. But for me personally, the worry was like, um and i know it's kind of twisted, but when to say that God loves you and then you're permanently loved and he's forgiven you of your sin. My first thought is, you know, what are, it's like abusing grace. so you know, when you get to a place where you're finally able to rest in unconditional love, because you never had it growing up. So there might seem to be this little moment where you're almost spiraling and,
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I'm going to say spiraling and sin because you're thinking, finally, for once, not going to get condemned for everything. My worry is like, what if I'm going to stay there? Because growing up, we were kind of taught that, yeah, you know, God loves you, but there always has to be a little bit of fear of hell, you know, to make sure to keep you up. Because I know myself personally, if I really slip into the love God, I'll just, because I'm over, overdo. I think I will i will mix confused resting with just letting everything go. Because sometimes there's a season where you do both, where you need to just let everything go, that all the ugliness. of Yeah, detox. So it'll in that detox, I might spiral. It's kind of like a child who grows up.
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They weren't allowed to have, let's say, sugar growing up, but then they're an adult, and then they cannot there's a small season where they spend all their money, all their hard-earned money or love on chocolate, and they get over it.
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But my fear is like, i don't want to go into that place at all, even if it's healthy for a bit, to get it out of my system, because it's almost like I have to go through excess to get to yes state, like neutral state, you know what I mean? so Not to excuse sin, like yeah obviously I don't want to absolve myself in responsibility, but if I don't have, know I'm not due to hell, but if i if my heels aren't a little hot, then I'm not going to really, know. Okay, okay. I think what happens then, yeah, because people say, you no hyper grace or excessive grace, which is when people start to sin, like, ask your God, it loves me anyway.
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But what people don't realize is The grace of God is what empowers life change. yeah And yes, the gospel is that Jesus died on the cross for all your sins and he rose again in your life and he gives that life to you now and it's a gift. You have to claim this. You have to take it.
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The gospel also includes an identity for Jesus. He is the Lord. That he is the master. He is the boss. He is the one who's in control. He is the one who has the last word on every part of your life.
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And I think m
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we start to excuse sin in our lives when we forget or choose to ignore that Jesus is the Lord. Like I'll be honest, I would say it for most of my life, I'd heard of, you know, the Lord Jesus.
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I don't know. if I've ever actually heard a teaching on what Lord means. I don't know if I ever actually sat through a teaching in all my life and heard, and it maybe be I did, but i don't remember, but I don't know if I ever actually heard someone say, the Lord Jesus is master Jesus. The Lord Jesus, you're his bond servant. He tells you what to do. His opinion is your opinion.
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If he says jump, you say how high or else you jump when you hope he catches you. If he says, leap off the boat. You jump and it's up to him to make sure you don't drown.
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If he says walk on the water, you just have to put your feet in the water and keep your eyes fixed on him. and But they then think that he is the Lord, that he's not. Yes, he's your best friend.
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And that's great. Yes, he's your biggest supporter. That's lovely. Yes, he's the lifter of your head. I actually like that name for him. it just It just resonates with me.
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Yes, he's healer. Yes, he's provider. But he also has the sword his mouth. But he also has the sword in his mouth. He has a double-edged sword. yeah and He is the master. He is the boss. And what he says, he means.
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And he doesn't... a lot of a lot of Christians have a very watered-down version of Jesus. And you'll know it when you listen to them.
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I really feel Holy Spirit asking me to talk to that person. I feel God is asking me to be an intercessor. God asked me to speak to a woman about him on the bus. And I said no. And he said that's okay.
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What Bible are these people reading? Does God sometimes ask questions Bible? Yes. Sometimes. Most the time he doesn't ask.
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He says. He commands. He shoots straight. And... This, I feel God asking me. I'm like, did he ask you or did he tell you? but Because they're not the same thing.
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And when he says it, when he gives that umption, when he gives you that impression, when you just, you know that you know that you know that it's him. When Christians say, he's asking me. I'm like, really?
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Was it a question? Did you have the options? Or did he just tell you to do it? I was walking in the forest with a guy on Monday. And he was just like, wouldn't it be great to pray it together?
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And nice I said, yeah, let's. We got down on our knees. normally don't pray on my knees. We got down on the knees the middle of the forest and just began praying to Jesus for 30 minutes.
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Or was in a restaurant with someone a few months back. And I knew I wasn't going to see him again for a few months. So you know what? I just began praying with them across the table in the restaurant. i didn't care who was listening.
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In fact, I hoped that they'd listen and they would say amen as well and claim the promise for themselves. There comes a point when you just have to say no to shame, no to fear, no to stress, no to anxiety, no to sin, and just say Jesus is God and live like it.
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thank you
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And it gets even. It starts off unnatural because the human, well, as Yanita said, the human drive is me, me, me, me. me me me me me Which could also be soul, soul, so soul, soul. soul soul so so But it's about submitting your soul, man, to your spirit.
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To your spirit, man. Just to do that to me feels so disrespectful, too. And that's like, maybe it's a smart, prideful tactic. Because I'm thinking, yeah, yeah, I know he loves me and stuff. And I know it's going to be healing because I know it says inside crier, quites you with his love, you know. But I'm just just so ready to think. And i mean I've lived under it for so long. kind of need hot heels to kind of, okay, name for example, that's why asked about when is it burnout to take a rest, know, let it rest here, let it slumber here. Because I genuinely don't have a sense of knowing what to stop because I'm always going. Because me, I just don't want to give myself any sense to be idle. But I don't even know what the difference between those two are. anyway because if i'm if i'm idle or restful i just already know i know myself so well so i just feel like it's better for god to find me working than for him to you know cause i just don't want to chance it because i know the way i think is the way sin kind of comes to me no i would say give yourself time every day that's just father daughter time that's just you and the lord and the easiest way to do it would be do at the same time every day make it part of your routine make it part of your rhythm
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Whether it's getting up an hour early, whether it's about stopping for an hour during the whether it's about finishing your day an hour early at night and just having that time with Jesus, 10 to 11, 11 to 12.
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Structuring it is the best possible time. Where you're about the Father's business during most the day, but you have that time to say, okay, God, let's just have a chat. Let's just talk about some stuff.
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Who is on your agenda? What do you want to pray for? and Give him time to speak to you. and speak to him, what he says to you, put back in his own hands.
01:43:26
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If he says, Naomi, have a plan for you to reach the nations, you say, okay, God, which nations? yep and If the Father wills it, the Father builds it. You provide finances.
01:43:38
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You provide the destination. Give me a vision or a dream of a map. And just point places. This kind of thing. Whatever he says to you, put right back in his hands. And...
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and learn to be okay with the quiet. We're getting quiet before him. In the same way, you know, we're good friends. But if we were to meet up outside of a church context, I like to think that you and I could sit on a couch comfortably and just chill out.
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We wouldn't have to fill the atmosphere with words every second of the day. Because there's a stillness, there's a comfort there. Do you have that comfort with God? Or if you were to a try to give God five minutes, would you spend three and a half of those minutes tapping your feet, resting your hands, you looking all around you?
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Is there that our sense of, I need to be like this, need to be doing this, this way? Because that's when you shift into being a doer you rather than just being. me um And yes, he wants you to do things for him, but from who you are.
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Not from being seen, not because you're afraid of the alternative, and you're afraid of not doing it, um but it comes from a place of knowing your identity in him and being totally, fully at peace and comfortable in that.
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That is more important, first and foremost, than the doing. Because when you know who you are, everything else flows far more naturally. It just feels like I'm wasting time. Like I should be doing it now or else I'm wasting time just people that i'm not getting to. But he has he has people for you to get to,
Lessons from David's Repentance
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but there are things he wants you to say to them when you get to them.
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But you need to know it first. You need to believe it first. um And then when you go, when he expands your world, you share with a truer word, a more authoritative word, a lighter word, and one which has experience behind it and more on more incorruptible.
01:45:53
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yeah Yeah. Okay, thank you. No, that's all good, that's good. All right, guys, we'll go back to 2 Samuel 12 and we'll start at verse 11.
01:46:05
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and its sorry verse eleven so Obviously, we live in the very best time there is to be alive because we have the cross of Jesus to fall back on. David lived about 1,000 years before that.
01:46:17
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So there is no cross for g for of ah Jesus in David's case. He's living under the law of blessings and curses.
01:46:25
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So verse 11. This is what the Lord says. So this is Nathan still speaking to David. Out of your own household, I'm going to bring calamity on you.
01:46:38
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So basically, because of the sin the violence, the murder that David brought into his home, the law of attraction, violence was going to come to David's family from within the family. And we're going to look at that in a few weeks' time. It's a very sad story.
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Dramatic. Politically gripping. Very sad. Before your very eyes, I'll take your wives and give them to one who is very close to you.
01:47:08
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So Uriah was his friend, his very good friend, and he took his wife. Law of attraction, sewing and reaping. Someone close to David was going to sleep with David's wives, with David's concubines.
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And he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. Think of how it was Lady Gaga a number of years ago was seen having sex on a boat, and now the paparazzi took photographs of her.
01:47:34
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That did not start in the 2000s. It's been on for quite a while. You did it in secret. But I'll do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.
01:47:47
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Law of attraction. Even what you do in darkness is clear as day to God. So David slept this woman in secret. What happens to David? People sleeping with his women.
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The whole country is going see it.
01:48:03
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Then David said to Nathan, this is his repentance moment. I have sinned against the Lord.
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This is where he differs from Saul. When Saul's sin was pointed out to him from Samuel the prophet, he always had someone else to blame.
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With David, he's like, yeah, you're right. That is 100% me. Sorry, God. Nathan replied, the Lord has taken away your sin.
01:48:40
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You are not going to die. Why did he say that? Well, firstly, the law of attraction. If you take a life, you can expect for your own life to be taken. But also in Exodus 21, 14. And Deuteronomy 22, 22.
01:48:56
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and deuteronomy twenty two point two the punishment in the law for murder and adultery was the death penalty. But because, so God's forgiving an act of grace here, an act of mercy.
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But sin carries consequences. Now this is an Old Testament law. This does not happen for us today, okay? Because we have the cross to Jesus. But because by doing this, you have shown utter contempt for the Lord.
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the son born to you will die. So David had taken Bathsheba's husband. So therefore, sowing and reaping, law of attraction, what you do to others will be done to you.
01:49:45
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The man, the boy born to Bathsheba through David will be taken from David. Now again, that's an Old Testament punishment. That does not apply to us today because we have the cross of Jesus.
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There's more I have to say on that, but I'll say i'll share it in a few minutes. After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
01:50:15
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David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground. This is an act of humility. Sackcloth is not comfortable.
01:50:29
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It is very itchy. He is showing how itchy, uncomfortable, and horrific he feels on the inside. It's a physical picture of a soul state.
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A physical picture of an internal reality.
01:50:51
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The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
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What was God, sorry, what was David praying and singing when he was on that ground? 51. Sam 51. fifty one sam fifty one
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Have mercy on me, oh God, according to your unfailing love.
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According to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
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A transgression is a trespass. You go somewhere, you should not have gone. You do something you should not have done. It's physical.
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Wash away all my iniquity. Iniquity is the sin in you. In your will, in your heart, in your mind.
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And cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions and my sin. and What's transgressions again? Yeah, so think of trespassing. Going on to someone's property that's not your own.
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That's something you physically do. You go somewhere you should not have gone. You do something you should not have done. And iniquity is the sin within.
01:52:39
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If I have understood right, iniquity, I mean, in in English, yeah the definition of iniquity is that you willingly, you know willingly and willingly,
01:52:55
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do weaker things. Exactly. Good, because with an act of your will, the sin starts in the soul, in the mind. Exactly, yeah. yep So you choose with your heart, with your will, with your mind is the soul sin, the internal sin. That's right.
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Good.
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Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me.
01:53:32
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Against you, you only, have I sinned. Now you could also say he's said you sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, but in terms of it's God's law.
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And done what is evil in your sight.
01:53:52
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So you are right in your verdicts. I'm justified when you judge. If God chooses to punish evil, it's fair. Because the evil was done by humans.
01:54:05
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Surely i was sinful at birth. Sinful from the time my mother conceived me. We can take two things from this. One, he's saying, what is true?
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We all have a predisposition to sin. When we were born, we all have a bend towards sin. It doesn't mean babies are evil. Babies are amazing. They're awesome.
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But we all have a leaning to sin. For example, if a baby may be their one year old, one a half, two years old, you don't have to teach a baby to lie.
01:54:41
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At some point, you know, if a vase is broken and the flowers are on the floor, And the parent goes, did you knock that vase? No, the dog did it.
01:54:52
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We don't have a dog.
01:54:55
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My teddy did it. You don't have to teach a baby to do that. It's just human nature.
01:55:03
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Another possible meaning is that David was born of adultery. And a lot of Bible scholars do believe that. And it would explain why his parents hated him, why his siblings hated him.
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So sinful from the time my mother conceived me, it's possible that Jesse had another woman on the side, possibly.
01:55:30
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In Jewish tradition, it's normally taught that he was born illegitimately.
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Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb. You taught me wisdom in that secret place.
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Cleanse me with hyssop. Beside hyssop, I want you to write John 19, 29. 19, 29. David is prophesying the cross here.
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Jesus hung on the cross,
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david is prophesying the cross here when jesus hung on the cross he said thirsty. was looking for a drink. And to mock him, the Roman soldiers got hyssop, a stick, and they stuck it in a sponge, and they put the sponge in vinegar, which was going to make him thirstier. was like, oh, here's a drink, huh?
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And they shoved it in his mouth. So cleanse me with hyssop? You might think, well, how does a stick make anyone clean? It's a prophecy about the cross Jesus. Whether or not he knew that the time, don't know.
01:56:44
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Cleanse me with his stuff and I will be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. Because you're all God's kids, he has cleansed you you are clean.
01:56:57
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He has made you whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
01:57:09
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Is there any evidence in 1 Samuel 11 and 12 that David had a bone problem? No. What is your bone? What are your bones? It's your inner man, your inner frame.
01:57:21
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The bones you've crushed, it's a soul, actually. It's a soul wound. When he says, my bones are crushed, he's saying my soul has been crushed. That's a soul wound.
01:57:36
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A soul wound... is caused by a generational sin that you're not responsible for, but you are responsible for breaking it.
01:57:50
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A soul wound is caused by sin that demons or people do to you.
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And a soul wound is caused by sin that you commit.
01:58:10
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When you sinned, when David committed adultery and lied and schemed and plotted and murdered, and then married the woman whose husband had been killed, he wounded his own soul.
01:58:23
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So a soul wound is caused by generational issues. You will suffer from things in this life that are not your responsibility. It's your responsibility to deal with it. But maybe your grandparents brought it into your bloodline.
01:58:36
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Or your great grandparents. Or further back. Or your parents. Sin that humans and demons come commit against you.
01:58:47
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And damage you do to yourself by your sin. Sorry, sorry. You know when you were saying that and God takes... now he you doing his word like disobedience is like displeasing them you know the way sometimes like with soul wounds like you said you just sit here that you know it's obviously sin is disobedience and soul wounds is it like you just mentioned that some sins not to absolve any more but some sins might be a bit harder to do with un being unaware because they're so cause their're generational wounds.
01:59:15
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So not that you don't have to deal with them, but it could explain maybe the dynamic between certain- Exactly. And like the bend towards certain sin over others. 100%. I think you might you might have some people and maybe they have a poverty mentality. And they're like, no, they can apply for 50 jobs a year and they'll get fired from every single one of them within two or three days.
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And then you look at me their parents and their parents always like, you know you know, we don't have enough money to put food to the table. And, you know, we would have had more money and until like you were born you you came along. And maybe the parents came from a family where that was always an issue. And they kind found that was always an issue. And you have like poverty spirits. I literally do want to use it at Deliverance Tomorrow ah with someone where poverty spirits got into the bloodline am And told the person, you have no money. You never have money. And people were like, I have no money. I'll never have money.
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So how about it became a stronghold? And no matter what they tried to do, nothing ever works. No business they tried to establish takes off the ground.
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Nothing they tried to achieve ever flourishes. And nothing that they tried their hand to ever works out. If they can send out 30 CVs, resumes, cover letters, they'll get no response.
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If they do get a job, they'll be harassed at work. and and it could be because actually there were poverty spirits that ended the bloodline years earlier and holed up the financial blessing God wants them to walk in.
02:00:58
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And that's the same with spirits of death. Spirits of suicide. Premature death is a major one. People dying years and decades before their time. or in my bloodline my dad's mother lost to set of twins then my aunt was playing twins and she lost them a and then my parents lost a child and so at the time none of them would have thought of this in a spiritual lens but now i can kind of see okay well in at least
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two generations, I could go into more examples but I won't do it on this platform, i I can count five or six, maybe seven children who've died in the womb or they came out of the womb in a very grisly, grotesque, every bone in the body broken, came out white, which is really horrific.
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I can see now that there was a spiritual assignment against the kids Even the fact that my brother, or sister, myself all very nearly died when we were born. and i can see that there was such a spirit of death afflicting us, even.
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and And then I can see you and throughout my life, times when I was like this close to dying, or even suicidal ideation I struggled with younger and i'm when I was a teenager, that it was never actually far away.
02:02:25
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And then can see that other of my cousins or or the likes went through very similar things. um So sometimes people are like, oh, that family's so blessed, that family's so curvy, that family has problems.
02:02:39
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They normally lay it down to your social economic status. But actually, if you put your your spiritual goggles on, you can actually say, okay, well, why is it that they could leave there, they can move there, they're back under, they can go there.
02:02:53
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matter where do they go, the same issues are following. it's got the same demons that are signed against them. um And you can change a location, but you can't outrun your heart or your soul.
02:03:04
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And the demons are latched onto that. They've locked off and broken off. And then you have to do what those kind of things are differently. yeah Yeah. And they're not all doors you opened, yeah but you do have responsibility to close them once you're aware of them.
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Thank you. You're okay.
02:03:27
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Okay, then verse eight. Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all not some, all my iniquity.
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Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.
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Then I will teach transgressors your way. So you fix me up and then I'll help others from the overflow. So that sinners will turn back to you. Because he was a sinner and was turning back to God.
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Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God. You who are God, my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
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I think that's a beautiful line there. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed. you He could have just said, deliver me from bloodshed, because he had committed it. But the guilt, the shame, the burden of it.
02:04:55
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As God's kids today, you are forgiven for all sins. you might still feel the guilt of it. You're forgiven, you might still carry the shame of it. You're forgiven, you might still carry the weight of it.
02:05:08
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You're forgiven, you might still carry the burden of it. That is one
Parallels with Jesus' Sacrifice
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you can pray every day the rest of your lives if that long takes. Deliver me from the guilt, the shame, the burden, the weight, the heaviness of what I've done. Because he has blocked it out of the book of deeds.
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He's not Considering that he doesn't look at you like you're sinner or like you're wicked, but you might still carry the weight of it and pray that he delivers you that and breaks it off.
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Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight sacrifice or I would bring it. You do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
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My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Sometimes verse 17 is the only thing you have to pray.
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God, i have nothing to give you but me. i i don't look like a whole lot of much today, God. All I have is my brokenness. All I have are my issues. All I have is my humility.
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All I have is this wreck Take this. This is my sacrificial worship today. Coming before you as I am.
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With very little. Just me. And that is what he wants. He'll take it. He'll put you back together again.
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May it please you to prosper Zion. Because again, he is a king. he wants his nation to be In right standing. To build up the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous. In burnt offerings offered whole. Then bowls will be offered on your altar.
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he wants his nation to be in a place of repentance. National repentance.
02:07:32
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Okay. going to finish off 2 Samuel 12 now, okay? So go back to 2 Samuel 12, verse 18. It's art. Thank you. You're okay.
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So 2 Samuel 12, verse 18. I'm not, it might look like I'm skirting over what happens the child, going circle back to it. On the seventh day,
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The child died.
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David's attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, well, the child was still living. He wouldn't listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him now the child is dead? He may do something in desperate, he might go crazy.
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David noticed that his attendants were whispering amongst themselves, and he realised the child was dead.
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Is the child dead? he asked. Yes, they replied. He is dead.
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Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the Lord, the tabernacle, which we looked at on Wednesday, and worshipped.
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Then he went to his own house, And at his request, they served him food and he ate.
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His attendants asked him, why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept. But now that the child is dead, you get up and eat. You're having the opposite reaction and response to what's expected here.
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He answered, while the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, who knows?
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The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live. But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again?
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I will go to him, but he will not return to me.
02:09:58
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In the Old Testament, when people died, including children, they went to paradise. We looked at this at Easter time, and paradise was not heaven. It was in the center of the earth, but it was heavenly.
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What happens now? Jesus has made a way to Father God. Everyone who dies is righteous, including children, because they are in innocent of sin.
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goes directly to heaven. There are some very nefarious,
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evil teachings out there regarding children that they go to hell unless you do a ritual on them beforehand, unless a certain person prays for them, or they go to like this oogity-boogity middle space and you have to give money to get rid of it.
02:10:59
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Wicked, wickedness. They go straight to the Father. Jesus said, let the little children come to me. He has a very special relationship with babies.
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that includes the unborn, the preborn babies, them too.
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And in heaven, there is no trauma regardless, but especially for babies, Whether they were miscarried, whether they were aborted, whether they just died, whether they were killed, whether they got sick and died, they have no memory, experiential memory, of that trauma, of that pain. It's not in their soul in heaven.
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and And they absolutely love their parents and their siblings on the earth. And they'll pray for them and they're super excited about being with them again at some point. um And they'll pray. If their parents don't know Jesus, they'll say, oh Jesus, hope that they get to know you. I pray they'll get to know you.
02:12:06
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And I'm sure there are times when God will say, oh, your mother did this on the earth today and they'll get so excited. Oh, your daddy did this on the earth today and they'll get so, so excited. And there are some prophets who get caught up to heaven quite regularly and they say that for those who die as babies or children, if their parents want to go to heaven and see them as babies, the Lord will sustain them as babies in heaven until their parents get to heaven.
02:12:37
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And then they will age to the eternal age, where they'd be like a young adult. Or if the parents will was always that they'd be like you know the right as They would age from a baby to a toddler to a child to a teenage young adult into eternal age before their parents go.
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But um what I've heard from those who got caught up and down to heaven regularly is it is the parent's decision.
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Verse 24. Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and made love to her. She gave birth to a son and they named him Solomon.
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Solomon means peace.
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Whole. That's whole W. W-H-O-L-E.
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Complete.
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Perfect.
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Safe.
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And it also means recompense. Recompense. Which means God punishes evil, but rewards good.
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Punishing evil, rewarding good.
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The Lord loved him. And because the Lord loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah. Sometimes you might have a dream or prophetic word, but God gives you a special nickname just between you and him.
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Jedidiah means beloved of Yahweh. Beloved of Yahweh. Yahweh name for God. and Yahweh is breath. It's an inhale. Yahweh.
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And an exhale to show that God is the breath of life. He's the breath who sustains you. The beloved of Yahweh. The life-giving breath. The spirit.
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And it also means hand in hand with the Lord. Hand in hand with the Lord. That he's got you and he will not let you go.
02:15:17
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Yes. And this guy in I can't pronounce his name. How was it? yeah Jedediah. Jedediah. Yeah, he wrote Psalm 1 to 7.
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so then Amen. Amen. Very good, Janita. Amen. He wrote Psalm 1 to 7. That was Psalm 1 to 7 as well. Very good, Janita. Yep. Okay,
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thanks, Janita. Amen. okay thanks that you need to amen Thank you. Hey, Brendan, I don't understand these things. Okay. So, at least in Finnish Bible,
02:16:07
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<unk> <unk> chapter... it, chapter? Uh-oh. I can't remember. Hold on. Chapter and verse. No, sorry. Verse. Verse 25 says...
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yeah and el And the Lord said sent prophet Nathan brings bring and word
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that this... Okay, basically, ah how do you say? The Lord is saying through Nathan today you have to give your son named Zeddiah. Okay. But then...
02:16:52
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Chapter, no, no, sorry. Verse 26 says Job attack Ammonish nation. So how does that have something to do with chapter 25? I mean verse 25. I understand.
02:17:11
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That is a great question. that I'm going to get to that in just a moment. Okay. Okay. We're going to read it and then I'll explain how it all connects. All right. Okay, thank you.
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Yeah, because I know it's a bit strange. You have this, you know, personal story the family, and then you're on the battlefield again. But I'm going to bring it into a big circle in just a moment. oh All right, so in verse 26, Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel. So while all of this family drama is happening in the palace in Jerusalem,
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the war is still taking place. So when you think about it from the night David slept with Bathsheba, right up until she had the baby and then lost the baby a week later, and then whenever they had sex again, and then had Solomon, in all that time, Joab and the men are still fighting this war.
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It's a long one. And this war, it's about to end.
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Joab then sent messengers to David saying, i have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply. So they're making good head, we're making in good advance at long last.
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Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise, i will take the city it will be named after me. So if I save the day, people are going to call the city Joab.
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Joab's like, I'm not the king, David. You're the king. You have to get here. People have to see that you're here. This has to be your victory. You cannot be hiding in your palace. You actually have to be here, get here do something.
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hey Sorry, Brenda, Brenda. I have to go. My battery is this but phone is in charge. See? This thing.
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tasting This thing. But this is broken. ah Don't worry, that you've been amazing and today, okay? You have the best one, all right? up
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So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah and attacked and captured it. After three long chapters, including Samuel 51, he is finally where he was supposed to be.
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David took the crown from their king's head and placed it on his own head. It weighed a talent of gold and it was set with precious stones.
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David took a great quantity of plunder from the city and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with soles and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.
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David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
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So, there are a few reasons why I say that these are my least favorite chapter in the Bible. One, i love David, and this is just embarrassing. Two, the whole adultery and murder storyline is cringey.
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And other thing I really hate, and I'm to be honest with you, is
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God in his sovereignty can do anything he wants. There are things he does not do now because of the cross of Jesus. Yes and amen. Thank you Christ.
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I, for very many years, and I still don't know if I really agree. God inflicted, it wasn't the devil. It wasn't sickness that just happened.
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that God inflicted that wound that killed the child, born of adultery. You don't see that happen regularly in the Bible, it does happen, it's like, ah pay attention to this moment.
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And wrestled with that for a long time. was like, God, I get that he sinned. I get that he murdered the child's mother's husband, and I understand sowing and reaping,
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But I was like, why was that necessary? And what he showed me one day years ago was when the story begins, it's a time of year when kings go off to war and David is not where he's supposed to be.
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Because he's not where he is supposed to be, he positions himself on that palace roof and accidentally sees something he was not supposed to see. Everything else is a decision he made with an act of his will.
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And gets to a place where he is very comfortably covering it up.
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When you get to the end of this chapter, because Yonita was just asking there a moment to ago, what's the connection between the family drama and the war? When the story ends, David is on the battlefield where he's meant to be.
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the time that was lost that he surrendered, he was put back where he was meant to be, back in the place of destiny, back in the place of fighting, with a crown on his head, crowned with glory and honor.
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What had to happen between all the sin and the sin that led to sin and the sin that led to sin that led to sin that led to more sin led to sin that led to more sin and him being where he is supposed to be in victory,
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In conquering, with a crown in his head, the death of a son who did not deserve it. Who am I talking about? I'm talking about Jesus.
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When I think of what my life would be like with without Christ, well, firstly, I wouldn't be here. I know that for a definite. I said I wouldn't be alive. But when I think of my darkest moments, my most wicked moments, the moments when I hurt people and I kind of liked it.
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The only reason i'm in a place now crowned with glory and honor where i can hold the word of God and tell you in your distress to hold on that what God did for me, he will do for you. he is no respecter of persons. He's no discriminator against persons. he loves everyone equally, and what he did for me, he'll do for you, is because I've seen it in my life again and again and again and again and again, and what did it take for me to get to this place?
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The death of someone who did not deserve it. The death of a son who was innocent, who was perfect, who was white as snow, who could not conceive wanting to do evil.
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For David, it was a baby. For us, it was a baby who grew to be 33 and a half years of age, hilled 2,000 years ago.
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That baby is a living picture, a prophetic narrative, 3D example, a foreshadow of the person and sacrifice of Jesus.
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Someone who was innocent, someone whose hands did not have blood in them, someone who was not responsible for what had happened, someone who might have been a consequence of the scandal, but was not in and of himself complicit in the slightest,
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but got struck by God so that his sinful father, David, could be where he needed to be, could get the crown of righteousness on his head.
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And the same way for us, Isaiah 53 tells us that Jesus was stricken by God. Substantially worse. He was disfigured beyond human likeness, beaten to a pulp where he looked more like a ragged doll or a monkey that someone had driven over with a car ten times than a human.
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After his whiplash, you could probably see his bones and internal organs. The nails put through his hands and his feet. I didn't want to think about it.
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The crown of thorns put into his head. The very wicked thought we've ever conjured. People calling King of the Jews mock humorously and browned down worshipping and then smacking him with sticks and beating him to a bloody pulp.
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Making him walk the length and breadth of a city and out of a city and up a mountain with a cross on his back. i Remember, this is the back that, you know, the internal organs are popping out at this point.
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Stripped him naked and hung him up on a cross between two criminals.
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The punishment that God dealt out to David here to get David where he needed to be is a picture of what Jesus willingly endured.
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to get us where God needed us to be. Crowned with glory and honor.
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Not to win a fight against a human army. To be more than conquerors in a fight against the empire of darkness. Not so we could continue sitting on his cushy throne in a country in the East 2000, 3000 years ago, in his case 3000, to make us citizens of heaven.
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Our father is the king of heaven that makes us princes and princesses of it a supernatural world. David's life was a long adventurous life, but it had an expiry date.
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Eternity for us in heaven huh is eternal. Even when heaven gets scrapped, he makes a new one and we live there for forever. ever
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And that is the length he went to for our sake.
Forgiveness and Redemption
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We're to look one more psalm, and then we're to have communion, okay? This is David thanking God for his forgiving power, for his forgiveness, for his love, after all this episode, after this whole drama.
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And it starts Psalm 32. Psalm 32. Blessed is the one
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lastst is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
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Thank you, all of us.
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Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them, and in whose spirit is no deceit.
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When I kept silent, my bones wasted away. Again, what are bones? It's your inner friend, your inner man. It's his soul. His soul wasted of away because of his own sin.
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He committed sin and wounded himself.
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Now you can look at the natural where sin can also impact you in the natural. But specifically, we're looking at soul wounds today. When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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For a day and night, your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
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Then we get to the renouncing and the repenting, the renunciation, the repentance. Then i acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity.
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I said, i will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the guilt of my sin. The last psalm, we look to the guilt of bloodshed. Again, yes, he forgives you of the sin, but he also forgives you of the guilt of the shame.
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Therefore, let all the faithful pray to you, while you may be found.
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Ooh, while you may be found. Right. There divine appointments when God is extract available. Easier to access, easier to get a hold of. It's easier to get that touch.
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And then there are moments, I'm not saying he's not there, he and he's everywhere, but there are moments when his tangible presence is there as to we felt. He has a vested interest a certain location.
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Revivals are one. Men's retreats in two weekends is another one. Sundays when we get together, it's supposed to be a time of power, a time of prayer, a time of breakthrough.
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Surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
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You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
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I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
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Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, but must be controlled by bit and bridle, or they will not come to you.
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Many are the woes of the wicked. but the Lord's unfailing love surrounds those who trust in him.
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Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous. Sing, all you who are upright in my heart.
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and So isa is that God speaking between, or so all day away? Because they can't see how instruct and teach you. Is that like what you think about? Yeah. all a Great question. All right. I would say this is, it's like God speaking to David, but David is speaking to those under the sign of his voice. So while he leans from God, he'll relate to others and build them.
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The Godry and the winds. Oh, don't know. I think got to speak.
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Now guys, I know that this was a very... i say every single Sunday. This was a different Sunday. Every day should be unique. Different kind teaching though. and God still loved David. And sometimes wonder, God, why did you give this big expose?
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But the reality is, there are moments when the version of ourselves that we see are once that we or want to think we have it all together... And reality bites and the illusion just blows up in our face.
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And here we have a story of the good, the bad, and the ugly. And the bad comes first, the ugly comes next, but God makes it good again. Because resurrection power is who he is.
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Before we take some communion, I don't even think I have anything to add for communion. think we're just going to have it. Do you want to put potion on your bread? Oh, yes, please. Does Anna have any comments, queries, questions or any contributions? I see that chat box has been explosive today, so let's have a but look at what's been on in here.
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Do you like loads of butter just little bit? Do you like more? I like loads of butter. Yeah, I like loads of stuff, yeah. I'm just afraid that the cholesterol thing is not real. I'm not getting rid of butter. No, this real butter. Oh, yes. Yeah, we're not telling the floor our crap. Thank you. Guys, great contribution in the chat box. Amen. Thank you. Brenda, do you more? No, thank you. Are you okay? Yeah.
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that his shuffold healthy dads college everything's nice but to speak of it because my struggle on those area and the sha talks you right guys great contribution to the chat box amen thank you when did you need more no than young goods new hint yes Yeah, I'm fine.
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All right, guys, anything you'd like to contribute or let's ready for communion? I know they even are the afternoon's getting on.
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All
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right.
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Okay. ah Father, we thank you for your word today.
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Sometimes you just have to get raw and real. And I thank you, Lord, that your word invites that. Contrary to popular belief, the Bible is not a book of fairy tales about well-behaved people who get everything they want and never suffer loss.
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It's a book about the human condition and the consequences that it has wrought.
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But how mighty you are to save. You are willing to do the impossible to show up and show yourself mighty.
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That you're a forgiving God, a restoring God.
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That all the areas of our lives, God, where we were supposed to be fighting the good fight of faith, and instead we chose to sit it out.
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And even God stumbled upon accidental sin. And then made decisions to lean into that. And to bring it to full bloom.
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But watch that too, Lord. It only ends in death and destruction. But you have given us your son, Jesus.
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Who is innocent and did not deserve what happened to him. but he took the punishment for I'm
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going read bit of Matthew chapter four. God i'll just impressed this in my heart right now.
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David was on a height when he sinned. He was on the rooftop. And in Matthew chapter four, Jesus was also on a height when the devil tempted him.
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Then Jesus was led by Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting 40 days and 40 nights, a month and a half, he was hungry. I bet he was hungry.
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The tempter, the devil, came to him and said, If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
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Jesus answered with the Bible verse, It is written, Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple, a high point. If you are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down.
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to commit suicide. For it's written, there's the bible there's the devil quoting the Bible. He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands so that you're you will not strike your foot against a stone.
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So the devil is saying, Jesus, fly. Pretend you're going to yourself and have your angels just fly around like Superman. What would that do? would give all glory to Jesus, but he would do it for self-seeking gain.
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Jesus answered him, it is also written, So now they're having a fight with different Bible verses. Do not put the Lord your God to the test. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
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That's not just human kingdom. That's all the kingdoms. That includes demonic kingdoms. Every country, every town, every city, every village is under demonic rulership in the second heaven in the sky.
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Satan shows every single one of them to Jesus and says, i will give you all of them. But you have to bow down and worship me first.
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are And Jesus said to him, away from me, Satan. For it is written, worship should the Lord your God and serve him only.
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Then the devil left him and angels came and tempted him.
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Satan came against Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was on a mountain, and they sinned. David was on the rooftop, and he sinned.
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Jesus, I thank you that in that desert, on that high place in the temple, and on that mountain, you did not sin. And like i said to Naomi earlier, your grace empowers us to resist sin,
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Your grace empowers us to make godly choices. Brendan, can i just say, do you think that could be o also an a event in your head, like in terms of to be on high, can also mean without actually physically standing high, but feeling maybe high in yourself?
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I've accomplished this. I've reached this. Like a bloated sense of self-esteem. It's bit an ego thing. And that's exactly what And where it becomes easy for you to do it. Yeah, because... You're feeling a wee bit powerful, maybe. Yes, yeah, because you're on a power trip. You're like, sure, nothing bad's going to happen to me. mean, can manage myself. I'm amazing.
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I like her. I think I have her. I feel, you know, I'm, you know... the kingdom i'm over the army, i have my old palace here. And maybe just in that moment was feeling like he wasn't where was supposed to be.
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And maybe that's when any of us, just talking about him, when you can then feeling a wee bit maybe superior, worse than yourself. Yeah, at least in just sight of God. 100%. Yeah. 100%. And we've all been there. And that's ah that's what pride is. It's saying that I e in it, right in the middle, where um you decentre God. Yes. And you put yourself, that you're the centre of the universe. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. 100%. 100%.
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Well, Lord, I thank you for this teaching today, Lord. and may it empower us in the coming week, weeks, months and years to resist sin, to resist temptation. May this be a day, God, for all of us.
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And that includes people who watch this on YouTube later on.
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To hearken to the word of God, the word God is our life. And Lord, you say, multiple times in this story today, that those who disobey your word hate your word and hate you.
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May the Joshua generation never be a group of believers of whom that describes. May we be people sold out for the word, standing on the word, who will not be compromised by the darkness.
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Don't people look at us and see us living
Conclusion and Living in Grace
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at the word of God? They'll say these are people who love him. and they love each other, and they love people.
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Lord, as we eat of the bread, it's just bread. It's from Lidl. It's cheap. It's not magical. It's not supernatural. But it's a reminder of the perfect, spotless, sinless, innocent son who was killed for us, our Lord.
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And as we drink of the cup, we remember The blood that was poured out, that has cleansed us, made us white as snow, and made us clean.
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in Jesus' name. i
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Yeah, I don't know.
02:44:29
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All right, so everybody. so Thank you for joining today. Thank you for your faithfulness, for trusting me to bring the word of God to you today in this afternoon. Thank you for the power of your presence.
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Thank you for all the prayer and supplication that you lifted up earlier, whether on mute or muting. Go for it and have a beautiful day with Jesus.
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Have a successful and eventful, adventurous week of being about the Fathers business, fighting good fighter faith, being where he would have you.
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If you haven't been there for a while, let this be a week of realignment, of restructuring. If you've made all the same mistakes David did, it's time to stop.
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If you have not forgiven yourself for whatever you've done, God has forgiven you, so why are you killing yourself? Why are you stabbing yourself in the soul while you're washing your own bones?
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he has forgiven you. yeah Receive the forgiveness. Run in the forgiveness. Live in the forgiveness. Don't give it up for an inch. Don't give up an inch. Live in the goodness of God. And he's actually remember, G-I-A-G. G-I-A-G. God is absolutely good. Amen. Amen.
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let's try by friendss let leave me have word for now See you later, Lisa. Bye, Priya. Bye, John. Lisa, what's your talk about? Lisa's the L, then Priya and John are there.
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can't see me over here.